Betty Hamilton
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Betty Hamilton (b.-?) was a British Trotskyist.
Betty Hamilton was born in French Switzerland. Moving to Paris as a young woman she worked as a journalist and became associated with the early Trotskyist movement. She moved to London in the 1930s, working as a dance teacher and then as an industrial worker during the war. Later she ran her own business importing industrial diamonds which enabled her to help finance the Healy wing of the British Trotskyists. From her arrival in England she was a member of various groupings, including the WIL, the RCP, the Healy 'Club' and the SLL until 1971 when she sided with Lambert and the OCI. She remained a formal member of the SLL until the formation of the Bulletin Group in 1975. She co-founded the BCRFI after the Bulletin Group split and then joined the SLG. She maintained her active membership of the Labour Party all through this time.
